I bought the 2018 version of photoshop running on Windows 10. (I also have a disc for photoshop 6 and a serial number.) I don't use photoshop enough to justify subscriptions. Each time I open it, it wants to install an update for Raw and I don't use Raw. My camera could take in RAW if if I wanted, but the file would be too big and I am not a professional photographer. I don't want the RAw update. I want to turn it off. I have not been able to remove or stop it.  But it was not yet updated because I keep delaying. It is very hypocritical for Abode to claim they "no longer support" this ancient version of Photoshop, when they are forcing me to update it to Raw, which is something I don't want. I don't like the Organizer either and I want just to do tiny touch up to Photos. The Organizer is too big and heavy and I prefer to self organize my files. So, if 2018 is indeed too old, please spot with the updates and leave me to sink or swim. I will at some point have to update it and spend more money, but now is not a good time for me to spend more money. ... View more

I like to reduce my photos to a smaller size to post on Word Press, because otherwise the pages take too long to load. I used to have issue with elements 6, but I upgraded to the latest version. The problem is happening again. The photo will appear resized, but if I look at the properties of the file, the photo still the same size and before, and it take several attempts to make the actually photo size shrink. I am not talking about reducing the amount of megabytes, but making the photo itself become smaller in physical size. Is this a known bug? If I have a regular size photo, and I want to post in Word Press, I like to shrink it to 30 or 40 percent of the original size so as to keep it the same, but just have it appear smaller. Bigger photos also show too big in Word Press, and the resize in word press, does not work very well. It may also fail causing a big huge picture to take up half the page and look unprofessional. Word Press will charge you more if you upload too many photo that are large in file size and you will run out of room.  Also the so called photo merger only places one photo on top of the other one and fails to create them side by side. Maybe I would like to have two images next to each other? I tired the photo merger, and then I created a blank canvas and dragged the files on the canvas, but they are stuck on top of reach other. They will not move to be size by size. They need to create an image place holder to make the photos move and stay on the canvas. I click on the "hand tool" to move the photos, but they will not budge. The only way to do this is to create a microsoft word document and insert my photos into it. They appear side by side, then I have to screen capture them into a new image. The image is not great quality, but its a better fix then not being able to do it at all. ... View more

I have bought Photoshop Elements, the editor it is working great. I got many family photos scanned and cropped with the Rectangular Marque. I would never change from Photoshop. That being said, the Organizer has issues. I have too many photos, so the Organizer can't read them all. I set it up so not all of my photos would go into the Organizer also, just the ones I thought would be fun to view and alter from time to time. But, this is only 50 percent of my photos. I collect dolls and take doll photos, but the Organizer, thinks the dolls are people, but it can't tell which doll. In fact, it also take the graphic box art, which is either a artist drawing of a doll or sometimes another photography of a box, and gives it a random name. I have to take pictures of the boxes to help with the doll ID. So, I tried to teach Photoshop which doll was which. I spent hours trying to tell it which doll was which, and giving it the names for the dolls as if they were people, but it did not get any smarter. It still picks any random doll and pairs it was any name. I also tried to delete the IDs that were wrong. Now, I just dread opening it all, so I don't open it. I have backed it up also to Dropbox, as it insists on being backed up. But, I just don't want to use anymore. I guess I should just not click on it. I have to say, the program is too big and heavy and takes way too long to load. If they would just sell Elements Editor without the Organizer, that would be my idea sort of program. All my photos are organized. Dolls are in folders on Windows sorted by type of doll and then each individual doll. The same with my pet photos, family and friends, and garden photos. I love to sort things, so I love to do this myself. I did like the idea of being able to be shown photos and maybe just tweak them from time to time, but is not that important. The image recognition is the same as what I am seeing in Google Images. Google takes all my fashion dolls and labels them as "Barbie", when many of them are not the Barbie Mattel Brand. I was hoping the program would learn which doll was which if I started to teach it by labeling the dolls. Most them are dolls I only saved the photos of for ID reasons. I am afraid to let it have a go at my actually friends and family now. I wonder it, if can learn people's faces as you go? But it is already so overburdened, I don't think I should add them. I should delete the catalog, and make a smaller catalog. Has any one done this? All you do is tell it to read only some of your folders and not all if them. How many photos can Organizer handle without freezing and crashing? If you have preorganized your folders, maybe Organizer could use that to learn the names of your friends and family? It would make sense when I have done all the work for Organizer, that it could use that to learn things. It could learn your pets names. I don't know if can tell a dog from a cat. Organizer should organize all the photos of a certain cat "Fluffy" together. There would be a lot of useful outcomes, if it could learn this. If Fluffy was a big black cat with long hair, you could give Fluffy a name once, and after that it would know what to do. Most people have more photos of their pets then of friends and family. ... View more